Strong AI and Information Systems
The following is a translation of a discussion with three students from ESIEE: Philippe Glories, Erwan Le Guennec, Yoann Champeil.- According to you, where mostly does one finds IA in everyday’s life...
View ArticleFive Challenges for Entreprise Architectures
I have defined previously the subject of this blog in a very general manner, trying to look at the “big picture” (almost from an epistemological point of view). The “big question” is : how much...
View ArticleComplex Systems and Autonomy
This blog is “moving” very slowly because I am currently much more involved with the theme “Information flow and Enterprise architecture”. I am currently working on Social Networks, and it turns out...
View ArticleLong term Research Agenda
I have published my research agenda on my web site.I will resume my work on OAI this summer to prepare a lecture that I need to give in October. However, my first priority is to translate my book into...
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Lean Information Systems
Lean Manufacturing is a powerful concept, which is often misunderstood. It was made popular by Toyota’s implementation and Taiichi Ohno’s vision (one of Toyota charismatic leaders). A very simple way...
View ArticleSustainable Enterprise Architecture
After five years spent as a CIO, I have developed the following conviction: [1] Major architecture re-engineering projects are fuelled by pain (one could say : no pain, no gain :)).Enterprise...
View ArticleAgility, Biology and SOA
I have just finished writing a new chapter for the third edition of my book « Entreprise Architecture & Business Process Management » (which is only published in French, unfortunately). This new...
View ArticleSoftware Development Productivity Gains ?
As I am close to getting my last book published, I figured I should publish a few pages once in a while to trigger the interest and to gather a few comments.This first extract deals with the matter of...
View ArticleFlexibility and Biology
In a previous post I have listed flexibility as one of the four pillars of agility. I defined flexibility very loosely with the following sentence: " the technical ability to cover a large span of...
View ArticleVery Cloudy Weather: will it rain on the « Cloud Computing » Parade?
This blog has been very quiet for the last few months … and will remain as such until I am finished preparing my lecture about Information Systems for Polytechnique (2009). I should have, at that...
View ArticleInformation Technology for the Chief Executive
At last, the english edition of my second book is available. It is somehow simplified (no technical appendix and a shorter, leaner introduction) but the body is the same as "Performance du Système...
View ArticleSOA is much too young to be dead
Today I'll look into the SOA controversy that was generated by Anne Thomas Manes's SOA's obituary. This may look like a slow response (90% of the blogosphere has already published their comments) but I...
View ArticleSelected Bibliography
Here is a short selection of my favorite books about IT and Enterprise Architecture. I will try to update and develop this selected bibliography in the future, and I am always on the lookout for...
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SOA : A Tale of Two Cities
This post is an attempt to illustrate a key message: the benefits of SOA are dwarfed by the inconvenient of not doing it. When I write SOA, I mean the combination of MDM (Master Data Management), EA...
View ArticleSustainable IT Budget in an Equation
This post is going to be technical, if you are allergic to math formulas, I suggest that you skip this or download my talk (in french) about IT value :)The topic is the search for a sustainable IT...
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Kolmogorov and the measure of competitive value
I was fortunate enough to attend USI and, although I could not participate to all the sessions, it has been quite fruitful. The (summer) "University of the Information System" is organized by Octo,...
View ArticleNew Shared Document
For reasons explained in my other blog, I am keeping quiet for a while. However, I have added the "Shared Documents" gadget on this blog and added a new presentation about SOA and BPM.I gave this...
View ArticleTaming Information Systems Complexity
This blog has been silent for a long time. I'll resume with a topic which is drawn from my course at Ecole Polytechnique: measuring and mastering the complexity of information systems. I have written...
View ArticleDarwin, Lamarck and Service-Oriented Architecture
This blog has been sleeping in 2010 since I was writing a third book on « Business Processes and Enterprise 2.0 », an attempt to capture my past years involvement with lean management and information...
View ArticleSystemic Simulation of Smart Grids
This blog has been extremely quiet for two years, mostly because I was busy with other topics, including Lean and Enterprise 2.0. In my previous post, I mentioned that I was looking at “Smart...
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